She holds a PhD in Law and Political Science from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, a MA degree in “Democracy and Government” from the same institution, and a BA degree in International Relations and European Studies from the National School of Political and Administrative Studies of Romania. Her interests lie, especially, in the areas of comparative politics, EU politics, citizenship, migration, political participation and representation. Her PhD dissertation (“The European citizenship and the electoral rights of non-national EU citizens in the EU Member States”) focused on the political participation of mobile EU citizens at EP and local elections held from 1999 onward in ten countries: France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Austria, Sweden, Finland and Denmark.